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In This Issue

When Aggression Follows Dementia

Alzheimer's Linked To Inadequate Sun Exposure

As Need Climbs, Resources Shrink For Senior Transportation

Brain Region Implicated In Emotional Disturbance In Dementia Patients

Alzheimer's Store Featured Product

Recipe Of The Week

Newsletter Promotions

Events Calendar

Trivia Questions

Editorial Note: Healthcare Products LLC reviews the news wires looking for press releases and current articles relating to dementia. We write a brief description of each article and by clicking on its heading will bring you to the originally written story ...hope you enjoy The Alzheimer's News...

(Source: New York Times) - For more than five years, Phyllis Edelstein managed to care for her husband Richard in their Long Island home as his dementia slowly progressed. She felt fortunate to have found, and to be able to pay for, a live-in couple to help her.

But last fall, “he was becoming more negative about things like showering,” she told me. “There’d be flare-ups of anger.” She saw her husband, a retired dentist, try to strike his hired helper one day, and she was startled, as they watched a Western together, to see him jump up and lunge toward the TV, as if he intended to beat up the bad guy. “It reached the point where I was uncertain being alone with him on weekends,” she said.

In January, she moved Dr. Edelstein, 82, into a nearby assisted living facility. He seemed to be settling in, though he did once hit another resident. But one Saturday last spring “he just lost it,” Mrs. Edelstein said. “A tremendous physical outburst.” He broke planters, upended furniture, pulled a closet door off its hinges.

Dr. Edelstein was found to have a urinary tract infection, long known to cause suddenly aggressive or bizarre behavior in dementia patients. But although his infection was treated, he hasn’t regained his previous level of function. He remains in a hospital psychiatric unit, where doctors are trying to adjust his medications so that he is calm but not somnolent.

(Source: Newsobserver.Com) - Blanche Utley decided to stop driving in 2004, when she began to lose her sight to macular degeneration.

A retired state employee, she lives alone in northwest Raleigh and counts herself lucky to remain at home when many people her age have moved to long-term care. She gives credit largely to the volunteers who give her rides to medical appointments and other destinations.

“I gave up driving before my license actually expired,” said Utley, 77. “I knew when the lines in the road got crooked I didn’t need to be driving.”

The Center for Volunteer Caregiving, a Cary-based nonprofit, helps coordinate rides for older people such as Utley throughout Wake County. Growing demand for such services meant that the miles provided by the center leapt from 18,000 last year to 36,000 this year.

(Source: Guardian Express) - It’s summer in the northern hemisphere, the sun is out and sunscreen has been ‘trending’ on Google news for well over 90 days now. There seems to be a huge programmed fear against the sun as a result of the increase in skin and other cancers over the years, even though it has been made clear time and again that it is over-exposure to the sun as well as repeated burning which contributes to melanoma and not the sun itself. We need the vitamin D and other benefits that come with regular sun exposure as anyone with Seasonal Affective Disorder will tell you. Now it is being shown that dis-eases such as Alzheimer’s are being linked with an inadequate amount of vitamin D from a lack of sun exposure.

We like to swing the pendulum in the western world from one extreme to the other. It’s difficult for people to accept information unless it’s black or white – which makes staying healthy often difficult since every person is unique and individual. However, it is pretty clear in the research that vitamin D is essential for so many bodily processes and a lack of it can contribute to not only Alzheimer’s but thyroid disorders, diabetes, arthritis, colitis, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, kidney disease and yes – cancer. So here people are trying to avoid the sun, apply sunscreen in attempts to avoid cancer and by so doing could actually be promoting cancer through denying the body of the essential vitamin D source.

(Source: Science Daily) - A study by researchers at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) is the first to demonstrate that patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) lose the emotional content/colour of their memories. These findings explain why FTD patients may not vividly remember an emotionally charged event like a wedding or funeral.
The research team discovered that a region of the brain, called the orbitofrontal cortex, plays a key role in linking emotion and memories.

"This step forward in the mapping of the brain will improve how we diagnose different types of dementia," says the study's lead author, Associate Professor Olivier Piguet.

The fact that we vividly remember events infused with emotion -- like birthday parties -- is well established. Patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) -- a degenerative condition that affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain -- show profound difficulty understanding and expressing emotion. Yet the extent to which such deficits weaken emotional enhancement of memory remains unknown.

The Alzheimer's Store Featured Product!

Item #H002 Incontinence Disposal Pail

Exclusively designed for disposal of incontinence products. Its unique internal trap door helps to contain odors...

Recipe Of The Week

Cranberries have been identified as an excellent dietary source of high-quality antioxidants which have been shown to help maintain healthy cognitive functioning.

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